Undergraduate Honors Program in Psychology

Honors Program Requirements

The Psychology Department offers a structured, research-based honors program for advanced students. The program is research intensive sequence of courses culminating in a empirically-based senior thesis project that is conducted by the student under the supervision of a faculty member.

· The Honors program does require students to apply and be accepted. In order to be considered, student's must have a
grade point average of 3.30 or better overall for all course work at the
University, as is a 3.50 or better for psychology courses.

In a In addition to the 36 credits required for the major, students need to fulfill 12 additional credits of the following coursework: APSY 310, APSY 399, 499, 499Z. Students must submit a senior honors
thesis acceptable to the research advisor and the Honors Committee and
present that work to the department.